I don't know about the specific issue, but it does sound like a bootloader problem to me - may or may not be a hardware issue, what type of RAID are you using?
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user55325Dec 19 '10 at 0:25

@user55325 It's and Adaptec 5405 SAS/SATA RAID card - I 500GB RAID0 and 1 1TB Raid 1 the important stuff is on the RAID 1 so it wouldn't be the end of the world the blow away the 500GB drive - just alot of redownloading steam games (that annoys comcast). Also when i said 'not pulling down ...' i ment 'now pulling down ...' just deleted it.
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ZypherDec 19 '10 at 0:29

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It ended up being the RAID controller being in a state where it was broken, but not yet broken. So It was able to boot just fine, and see the drives and the arrays but not actually boot off of them. I ended up pulling the controller and just using the motherboard connections. I guess I need to move up my time frame for updating to SSDs and get a new RAID controller while i'm at it.